About JBC Coffee Roasters
JBC Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee roastery based in Madison, Wisconsin, known for quality-driven sourcing and relationship-based supply chain practices. Founding details including year and founder are not publicly documented. The roastery earned the top spot in Coffee Review's Best of 2023, with a winning lot built on experimental fermentation processing.



About
JBC Coffee Roasters is based in Madison, Wisconsin, and has built a reputation around quality-driven sourcing and what the company describes as a human-centered approach to the supply chain. Founding details — including who started the roastery and when — are not publicly documented on the company's website, but the operation has become one of the more recognized specialty roasters in the upper Midwest. Their stated pillars are quality, producer relationships, and sustainability.
The roastery operates primarily as a direct-to-consumer and wholesale business, with a P.O. Box mailing address in Madison suggesting a production-focused model rather than a high-profile retail storefront. Beyond those structural basics, the company's own website offers little in the way of published history, keeping the focus on the product rather than origin narrative.
JBC's roasting work leans into experimental and high-differentiation processing, as evidenced by the coffees that have drawn national press attention. Their sourcing emphasis on producer relationships — a commitment signaled on their homepage — points toward traceable, relationship-based buying rather than spot-market commodity lots. Technique specifics are not publicly detailed, but their award record suggests precision at the roasting level.
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Coffee & Beans Review
JBC Coffee Roasters claimed the top position in Coffee Review's Best of 2023, a distinction reported by Daily Coffee News under the headline 'Madison's JBC Coffee Earns Top Spot in Coffee Review's Best of 2023.' The winning coffee was an experimentally processed lot, placing JBC among a cohort of roasters whose highest-scoring offerings rely on fermentation and processing innovation to achieve distinctive cup profiles. Local Madison television also covered the award, framing it as the roastery winning 'best coffee in the world' for that year.
For those looking to buy, JBC sells through their website at jbccoffeeroasters.com, where online ordering and a newsletter subscription are the primary customer touchpoints. No cafe or tasting room details are publicly described on their site.
Coffee at a Glance
- Roaster status
- Profiled
- Bean products
- Single origins, Subscriptions
- Best buying path
- In store or subscription
- Specialty transparency
- Limited
Awards & Recognition
- ★Best of 2023 — Top Position2023· Coffee Review
What JBC Coffee Roasters Roasts
lemon lime soda, apple blossom, violet
dark chocolate, almond butter, cherry pie
tropical fruit, blackberry, panela, banana chips
strawberry guava, watermelon, hibiscus
apricot, jasmine, cranberry tart, sarsaparilla
guava, melon, caramel cinnamon roll
blueberry lemonade, gingersnaps, candied raspberry, dark chocolate
cranberry, pear lime seltzer, sweet cherry tomato
clementine, butterscotch, rose, cane sugar
apricot, milk chocolate, macadamia
lemon lime popsicle, s'mores, magnolia
guava, lilac, candied almond, tootsie roll
guava, strawberry kiwi, blackberry buttercream, lemon drop martini
jammy pink fruits, black cherry, wildflower honey, candy-like sweetness
A Colombia single-origin SL-28 variety from Piendamó, Cauca, grown at 1950m and processed through Wilton Benitez's signature multi-step method including ultrasound treatment, ozonated water sterilization, UV light, double thermal shock, double anaerobic yeast fermentation, and controlled drying. It has a plush, silky body with winey acidity and tasting notes of blue raspberry, sweet tarts, freesia, and huckleberry jam — the same lot used to win 1st and 4th place at Colombia's national barista championship.
cherry bubblegum, pink champagne, freesia, huckleberry jam
aprium, raspberry jam, marzipan
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Citations & Press
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